Blooming in Frome, a garden diary

April 10, 2017

In a vase on Monday: Red Hunter tulips

Every Monday, gardeners around the world share a vase of their best blooms with Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. It’s a most addictive meme!

My contribution for this week is a bouquet of red hunter tulips, with hellebore, heuchera ‘little cutie’ and malus royalty crab apple blossom. This same bunch is today’s bouquet at www.fromeblooms.com, where I’ve posted a new bouquet from the garden every weekday for the last few weeks.

I like the limited palette of scarlet, plum and chocolate, which makes a change from the yellow and blues of daffodils, primroses, bluebells and grape hyacinths which have dominated the garden in the last couple of weeks.

The bouquet is in a little ceramic jug with a bronze glaze. This was another bargain find from a Frome charity shop. I think I paid £1.25 for this little pot. Checking its bottom, I see it was made in Wales, but I can’t decipher the text above ‘WALES’ – any suggestions?

Do visit Cathy’s blog to see what’s been posted in a vase on Monday this week.

6 thoughts on “In a vase on Monday: Red Hunter tulips”

Oh, I love your restricted palette – good to see Royalty in it too, as I have just noticed that ours is in full flower too. Copied and zoomed into your photo of the base but couldn’t make it out either. Well done for daily vases – I am off to have a quick look now!

It certainly makes a very exciting change from the usual spring colours – the hellebore in particular almost begins to look like something much more exotic! I couldn’t decipher the engraving on the vase base either – but what a find!